Evelyne Schmid

Evelyne Schmid is a Swiss lawyer and Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne . Since 2017 she has held one of the two chairs for international law at the Faculty of Law . In her research, Schmid deals with international public law , human rights protection and the relationship between international and national law . Schmid has been a board member of the European Society of International Law since 2018 . For her book Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law , she was awarded the Christiane Rajewsky Prize of the German Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research in 2016.

Career

Schmid holds a Licentiate in International Relations from the University of Geneva and an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Tufts University (Massachusetts). She received her doctorate from the Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) in Geneva. This was followed by teaching positions at the University of Basel , the University of Lucerne and at Bangor University (Great Britain). Evelyne Schmid has completed numerous research stays at the universities of Heidelberg , Giessen , Amsterdam and Harvard . From 2008 to 2010 Schmid was a project coordinator at TRIAL .

Schmid has received scholarships from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Ambizione), the Max Geldner Foundation and the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Scholarships .

research

In her main work Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law , Schmid states that in conflict resolution processes (so-called transitional justice ) violations of human rights to food, work, health or participation in cultural life (i.e. economic, social and cultural Rights) are considered far less often than violations of civil and civil rights. Human rights violations such as B. extrajudicial shootings or arbitrary imprisonment are of course discussed and processed, while z. For example, hunger, denied educational opportunities or miserable health care are often perceived only as a diffuse and inevitable background against which so-called serious crimes take place, often also when there are indications that the destruction of livelihoods was deliberate, for example to people from a To evict territory.

Schmid then the question arises whether this neglect may be created in international criminal law, and examines them in the field of international criminal law (International Criminal Law) . Her research hypothesis, namely that there are overlaps between the criminal offenses of international law and violations of economic, social and cultural rights, is confirmed.

Schmid does not derive from this, however, the demand that international criminal law should henceforth concentrate exclusively on violations of economic, social and cultural rights. It merely points out that there are legal instruments to bring such violations of law to the fore in the context of international criminal law considerations. It is not acceptable to say that international criminal law enforces an almost exclusive focus on a few civil and political rights. This requirement is also important for non-lawyers, e.g. B. in the context of specific conflict resolution programs: there is a significant difference whether z. For example, hunger in Cambodia during the Khmer regime is described as the result of an alleged crime or as pure context information.

Schmid is currently researching together with Martino Maggetti in the project “Bypassing the Nation State? How Swiss Cantonal Parliaments Deal with International Obligations ”, which is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation . This project examines the effects of legal obligations under international law on the specific work of the cantonal parliaments: When and through which formal and informal mechanisms do cantonal actors actually come into contact with such obligations? And how do cantonal parliaments view the implementation of obligations under international law? By examining these and similar questions, the project aims to develop a differentiated understanding of the reality of international law that is particularly relevant for Switzerland in cantonal legislative processes.

Committee activity (selection)

Schmid is or was active in numerous committees:

Consultant, trainer or practice judge for various moot court teams (international moot competitions)
Scientific committee of the doctoral program of the Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale (CUSO) (since 2017)
Member of the strategy commission (2019-2023) of the Law Faculty at the University of Basel (2014-2015)
Member of the Center for Innovative Teaching, Law Faculty of the University of Basel (2014–2017)
Member of the Doctoral Committee, Bangor University (2011–2014)

Publications (selection)

Possibilities and limits of international criminal law as an instrument against the illegal exploitation of natural resources and land grabbing. In: Journal for Peace and Conflict Research (ZeFKo). Vol. 6, No. 1, 2017, pp. 129–148 ( online; chargeable) .
Legislative mandates under international law in the cantons. In: Revue de droit suisse. No. 1, 2016, pp. 3–25.
Adverse human agency and disasters: a role for international criminal law? In: S. Breau, K. Samuel (Eds.): Research handbook on disasters and international law. E. Elgar, Cheltenham 2016, ISBN 978-1-78471-739-1 , pp. 111-131 ( online; paid) .
Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06396-9 .
with Aoife Nolan: Do No Harm? Exploring the Scope of Economic and Social Rights in Transitional Justice. In: International Journal of Transitional Justice. Vol. 8, No. 3, 2014, pp. 362-383.
The Right to a Fair Trial in Times of Terrorism: A Method to Identify the Non-Derogable Aspects of Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In: Goettingen Journal of International Law. Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009, pp. 29-44 ( GoJIL Essay Prize 2008).

Web links

Interview with Evelyne Schmid about her book Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law on the website of the University of Basel

Evelyne Schmid on the University of Lausanne website

Personal website of Evelyne Schmid

List of Evelyne Schmid's publications on the ORCID portal

Individual evidence

↑ Professeurs. University of Lausanne (Department of International Law), accessed on November 19, 2018 .
^ Christiane Rajewsky Prize for Evelyne Schmid. University of Basel , March 21, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
↑ Prof. Dr. Evelyne Schmid. (PDF; 151 kB) Ius Gentium, accessed on November 17, 2018 ( CV ).
^ Evelyne Schmid on the website of the University of Lausanne .
^ Evelyne Schmid: Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06396-9 .
^ Bypassing the Nation State? How Swiss Cantonal Parliaments Deal with International Obligations. University of Lausanne (project page), accessed on November 20, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schmid, Evelyne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss lawyer and associate professor at the University of Lausanne
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] Professeurs. University of Lausanne (Department of International Law), accessed on November 19, 2018 .

[2] Christiane Rajewsky Prize for Evelyne Schmid. University of Basel , March 21, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2018 .

[3] Prof. Dr. Evelyne Schmid. (PDF; 151 kB) Ius Gentium, accessed on November 17, 2018 ( CV ).

[4] Evelyne Schmid on the website of the University of Lausanne .

[5] Evelyne Schmid: Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06396-9 .

[6] Bypassing the Nation State? How Swiss Cantonal Parliaments Deal with International Obligations. University of Lausanne (project page), accessed on November 20, 2018 .